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I'm interested in feedback on my latest blog post, "Seamless web video within reach": http://ossguy.com/?p=424 It primarily describes how to get Theora working in Safari and Internet Explorer and how to bring it all together with tools like Mv_Embed. In addition, I'd like to find people that are interested in developing and testing the solutions I outlined (especially Mac and Windows users)...

Denver Gingerich has put together a quick frontend for ffmpeg2theora. It's written in Qt, so will run on OS X, Windows, and X11. You can find it here: http://github.com/ossguy/qtheorafrontend It doesn't do any sort of error checking right now, and currently assumes the video file is in the current directory and called "test.flv". It will convert the file, showing ffmpeg2theora's status in the UI. Work is ongoing to polish it up & add more features....

If you're going to be at OVC, let everyone know. Sounds like there's a big crowd that's going to be there. --Chris

...ve this, I added a feature to Wine that allows you to force a particular refresh rate even if the application specifies a refresh rate of its own. This would probably be useful for your situation. Full details for how to use the feature are available in the third paragraph of my blog post (http://ossguy.com/?p=29). Essentially it requires you to upgrade to Wine 0.9.58 and add a registry entry specifying the refresh rate you want to use. The refresh rate you specify should be the refresh rate as listed by xrandr, not the real refresh rate. Let me know if you have any questions about that. I hop...

Fellow open video enthusiasts, Chris Blizzard just suggested that with all the Xiph developers attending the OpenVideoConference, we should all get together and discuss the next things to attack for Ogg Theora/Vorbis in Firefox. I think that's a great idea. Assuming that everyone stays for the hackfest on Sunday, we picked 10am on Sunday for a thorough discussion and planning session (1-2

I did some tests: ### Theora support in Firefox 3.7a (missnamed as "Minefield"): Same as since 3.5 (plays, no controls if Javascript off, no thorough retest of buffering issues). http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/2010-January/003369.html http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449358 ### WeBM support in Firefox 3.7a Seems to play (controls bug of course also there) and

Begin forwarded message: > From: "Tom O'Reilly" <TOreilly at mpegla.com> > Date: May 22, 2010 6:31:50 PM CDT > To: "Dave Johnson" <davefilms.us at gmail.com> > Cc: "Info-web" <Info-web at mpegla.com> > Subject: RE: VP8 > > Dear Mr. Johnson, > > Thank you for writing. We appreciate hearing from you and the >

Hey, everyone. I'm sure this thread will generate some email! Some people are working on a super-easy to use converter for people to be able to convert videos to Theora for the upcoming Get Video on Wikipedia push: http://videoonwikipedia.org/ (Note that this isn't being pushed yet, and is pre-launch quality!) For the converter one thing we'd like to be able to provide is a set